Holiday Script

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I’ve created some bash scripts to retrieve information about public and school holidays from the internet. The scripts writes information to pimatic variables, so that I can consider this information in the open and close times of my shutter steerage. Where is the right place to share these scipts?

#!/bin/bash
# 
#...phinfo.sh [yyyymmdd]
#
#...post current date to pimatic, if true enhanced by name of public holiday
#
#... "yyyymmdd"    # run script in test mode                                  
#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
. /home/pi/pimaticAPI.sh

PIMATIC_VAR1="publicHoliday"
PIMATIC_VAR2="today"
PIMATIC_VAR3="sunposition"
#
#... check and get runstring parameter
#
if [ "$1" ]
then
    qday=$1
	DEBUG="true"
else
    qday="today"
fi
qdate=$(date -d "$qday" +"%d.%m.%Y")

public_holiday=$(curl -s http://www.ferienkalender.com/ferien_deutschland/Nordrhein-Westfalen/2015-ferien-nordrhein-westfalen.htm | grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{RS="</td></tr><tr";FS="><td align=left>";} {print $2,$3;}'| grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="<b>";} {print $3,$2;}' | awk 'BEGIN{FS="</b></td ";} {print $2," - ",$1;}' )

if [ "$public_holiday" ]
then
     phday="true"
else
     phday="false"
     public_holiday="$(date -d "$qday" +"%A"), $qdate"
fi

if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]; then echo ":$phday:$public_holiday:"; fi

pimatic_var_value="\"$phday\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR1 "$pimatic_var_value"

pimatic_var_value="\"$public_holiday\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR2 "$pimatic_var_value"
#
#.   get sunrise and sunset time
#
sunrise=$(curl -s http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=642800 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $2}' | { date -f - +%R; })
sunset=$(curl -s http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=644719 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $4}'|{ date -f - +%R; })

sunposition="Aufgang $sunrise Uhr, Untergang $sunset Uhr"

if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]; then echo "$sunposition"; fi

pimatic_var_value="\"$sunposition\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR3 "$pimatic_var_value"

exit 0

#!/bin/bash

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

export PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE="/home/pi/pimatic-app/config.json"
export PIMATIC_HOST=$(hostname)
export PIMATIC_USER=admin

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#.    write value trough pimatic variabale
#  
function write_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_var=$1
pimatic_var_value=$2

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')

#.  DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
	echo "pimatic variable - ${pimatic_var}"
	echo "value - ${pimatic_var_value}"
	echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
	echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var"
fi

curl --insecure -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": '"${pimatic_var_value}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var >/dev/null 2>&1

}
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#.    post action request trough pimatic 
#  
function post_action_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_action=$1

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')

#... DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
	echo "pimatic action - ${pimatic_action}"
	echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
	echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action"
fi

curl --insecure -X POST --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"actionString":'"${pimatic_action}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action >/dev/null 2>&1

}

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@MrSponti
Very nice!!
I will move your post later when I am home again.

@MrSponti
could you please write some more details how to use it? do i have to edit parts of the script, user, pwd? do i have to prepare devices or variables?
do i just need a rule which executes this 2 scripts or do i have to do more?

Ok, I’ve written the scripts to get actual daily information about public and school holidays to consider this information in setting the open and close time for my pimatic shutter steerage. As an example, at public and school holidays the open times are delayed by 1,5 hour compared to normal open times. The scripts refer to public and school holidays in Germany, state NRW. For other countries or german states you need to reference other internet sides and to adjust the HTML text processing with awk and grep in the scripts.

The scripts require the following pimatic variables:

$publicHoliday - logical value, ‘true’ if actual day is a public holiday otherwise ‘false’
$today - string, kepping the date plus name of public holiday if true for the actual day
$schoolHoliday - logical value ‘true’ if actual day is a school holiday, otherwise ‘false’
$schoolHolidayInfo - string, keeping name of holiday periode plus start and end date
$sunposition - string, keeping time on sunrise and sunset

Step 1: Define required variables within pimatic

Stop pimatic, define the variables in config.json and start pimatic

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo service pimatic stop

Edit your config.json and add the following variables in section “variables”:

{
  "name": "publicHoliday",
  "value": "true"
},
{
  "name": "schoolHoliday",
  "value": "true",
},
{
  "name": "schoolHolidayInfo",
  "value": "-"
},
{
  "name": "sunposition",
  "value": "-"
},
{
  "name": "today",
  "value": "-"
},

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo service pimatic start

Step 2: Install and test the scripts

Login (ssh) to your raspberry and install (copy) the scripts 'phinfo.sh, ‘hdinfo.sh’ and ‘pimaticAPI.sh’ to pi’s home directory (samba, ftp, …)
Check if the scripts are executable, if not run chmod 744 *.sh).
Here is my directory listing:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -l
insgesamt 40
-rwxr–r-- 1 pi pi 2918 Jun 27 10:19 hdinfo.sh
-rwxr–r-- 1 pi pi 1741 Jul 4 09:24 phinfo.sh
-rwxr–r-- 1 pi pi 1684 Jul 4 09:18 pimaticAPI.sh
drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4096 Jul 5 10:24 pimatic-app
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 979 Mai 24 14:17 pimatic-init-d
drwxrwxr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 27 09:34 python_games
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Mai 24 13:22 tmp

Now run the sripts in test mode. The sripts will reference internet pages to retrieve the respective info’s (see scripts) and read from config.json ‘user:password’ for pimatic admin user, required to use the login mechanism of the pimatic API.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ./phinfo.sh 20151225
:true:Freitag, 25.12.2015 - 1. Weihnachtstag:
pimatic variable - publicHoliday
value - "true"
user:password - admin:lxyp612
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/publicHoliday
pimatic variable - today
value - "Freitag, 25.12.2015 - 1. Weihnachtstag"
user:password - admin:*******
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/today
Aufgang 05:23 Uhr, Untergang 21:38 Uhr
pimatic variable - sunposition
value - "Aufgang 05:23 Uhr, Untergang 21:38 Uhr"
user:password - admin:*******
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/sunposition

Your output should be similar (Germany, NRW).
Then, run the ‘hdinfo.sh’ script to get dates on holidays in Germany, NRW:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ./hdinfo.sh 20150705
05.Jul 2015
Weihnachtsferien 22.Dez - 06.Jan
Osterferien 30.Mär - 11.Apr
Pfingsten 26.Mai - 26.Mai
Sommerferien 29.Jun - 11.Aug
Herbstferien 05.Okt - 17.Okt
Weihnachtsferien 23.Dez - 06.Jan
1 193 186 1 6
2 193 186 89 101
3 193 186 146 146
4 193 186 180 223
5 193 186 278 290
6 193 186 357 365
true Sommerferien 29.Jun - 11.Aug
pimatic variable - schoolHoliday
value - "true"
user:password - admin:*******
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/schoolHoliday
pimatic variable - schoolHolidayInfo
value - "Sommerferien 29.Jun - 11.Aug"
user:password - admin:*******
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/schoolHolidayInfo

Login to pimatic GUI and check the values of the appropriate variables. The values should be identically to the values seen in the test output on shell level.

Step3: Ensure daily update of the variables

With the following rule the pimatic variables will be nightly updated

{
  "id": "get-today",
  "name": "Aktuelle Informationen aus dem Internet einlesen",
  "rule": "if it is 00:05 then execute \"/home/pi/phinfo.sh\" and execute \"/home/pi/hdinfo.sh\"", 
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},

Step4: Display the information in your frontend and/or define rules using the variable values

I’m using the information in my pimatic dash board and more important to steer the shutters in my home, especially important to delay the open time during holidays and public holidays in the rooms of my children.

For displaying the values you need to define a respective ‘variable device’. Example:

 {
  "id": "dtoday",
  "name": "Heute",
  "class": "VariablesDevice",
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "Heute",
      "type": "string",
      "expression": "\"$today\"",
      "label": "Heute"
    }
  ]
},

Here is an example where the information is used in a rule definition:

{
  "id": "set-shutter-opening-times-for-weekend",
  "name": "Rolladen - Öffnungszeiten für Wochenende Sa-So und Feiertage setzen",
  "rule": "if its sunrise and [ $weekend = \"true\" or $publicHoliday = \"true\" ] then set $OTshutterSRL to $SRLatWeekend and set $OTshutterSRX to $SRXatWeekend and set $OTshutterSRP1 to $SRP1atWeekend and set $OTshutterSRP2 to $SRP2atWeekend",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},
{
  "id": "set-shutter-opening-times-for-workdays",
  "name": "Rolladen - Öffnungszeiten für Werktage Mo-Fr und Feiertage setzen",
  "rule": "if its 01:05 and [ $weekend = \"false\" and $publicHoliday = \"false\" ] then set $OTshutterSRL to $SRLatWorkday and $OTshutterSRX to $SRXatWorkday and $OTshutterSRP1 to $SRP1atWorkday and $OTshutterSRP2 to $SRP2atWorkday",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},
{
  "id": "set-shutter-opening-times-for-holidays",
  "name": "Rolladen - Öffnungszeiten der Kinderzimmer für Ferientage setzen",
  "rule": "if its 01:15 and $schoolHoliday = \"true\" then set $OTshutterSRL to $SRLatWeekend and set $OTshutterSRX to $SRXatWeekend",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},

Hopefully I didn’t forget something important and everyone who is interested is able to get it running. As we have holidays I’ve only limited time to answer and support requests.

Remark: Pimatic variables ‘sunset’ and ‘sunrise’ are set by the plugin ‘sunrise’ and not by my script.

To be complete, here are the scripts:

#!/bin/bash
# pimaticAPI.sh

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

export PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE="/home/pi/pimatic-app/config.json"
export PIMATIC_HOST=$(hostname)
export PIMATIC_USER=admin

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# write value trough pimatic variabale
#  
function write_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_var=$1
pimatic_var_value=$2

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')

# DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
	echo "pimatic variable - ${pimatic_var}"
	echo "value - ${pimatic_var_value}"
	echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
	echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var"
fi

curl --insecure -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": '"${pimatic_var_value}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var >/dev/null 2>&1

}
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# post action request trough pimatic
#  
function post_action_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_action=$1

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')

# DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
	echo "pimatic action - ${pimatic_action}"
	echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
	echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action"
fi

curl --insecure -X POST --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"actionString":'"${pimatic_action}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action >/dev/null 2>&1

}

#!/bin/bash
#
# phinfo.sh [yyyymmdd]
#
# post current date to pimatic, if true enhanced by name of public holiday
# "yyyymmdd"    # run script in test mode                                  
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
. /home/pi/pimaticAPI.sh

PIMATIC_VAR1="publicHoliday"
PIMATIC_VAR2="today"
PIMATIC_VAR3="sunposition"
#
# check and get runstring parameter
#
if [ "$1" ]
then
	qday=$1
	DEBUG="true"
else
	qday="today"
fi
qdate=$(date -d "$qday" +"%d.%m.%Y")

public_holiday=$(curl -s http://www.ferienkalender.com/ferien_deutschland/Nordrhein-Westfalen/2015-ferien-nordrhein-westfalen.htm | grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{RS="</td></tr><tr";FS="><td align=left>";} {print $2,$3;}'| grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="<b>";} {print $3,$2;}' | awk 'BEGIN{FS="</b></td ";} {print $2," - ",$1;}' )

if [ "$public_holiday" ]
then
	 phday="true"
else
	 phday="false"
	 public_holiday="$(date -d "$qday" +"%A"), $qdate"
fi

if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]; then echo ":$phday:$public_holiday:"; fi

pimatic_var_value="\"$phday\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR1 "$pimatic_var_value"

pimatic_var_value="\"$public_holiday\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR2 "$pimatic_var_value"
#
# get sunrise and sunset time
#
sunrise=$(curl -s http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=642800 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $2}' | { date -f - +%R; })
sunset=$(curl -s http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=644719 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $4}'|{ date -f - +%R; })

sunposition="Aufgang $sunrise Uhr, Untergang $sunset Uhr"

if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]; then echo "$sunposition"; fi

pimatic_var_value="\"$sunposition\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR3 "$pimatic_var_value"

exit 0

#!/bin/bash
#
# hdinfo.sh [yyyymmdd]
#
# post information about school holidays (NRW)to pimatic
# "yyyymmdd"    # script return holiday information about requested day                             
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
. /home/pi/pimaticAPI.sh

PIMATIC_VAR1="schoolHoliday"
PIMATIC_VAR2="schoolHolidayInfo"

schoolHoliday="false"
schoolHolidayInfo="-"
#
# check and get runstring parameter
#
if [ "$1" ]    #  run script in test mode
then
	echo $(date -d "$1" +"%d.%b %Y")
	iday=$(date -d "$1" +%-j)   		# requested day in number format (e.q 237)
	fcday=$(date -d "$1 +7 days" +%-j)   
	DEBUG="true"
else
	iday=$(date +%-j)					# current day in number format (e.q 237)
	fcday=$(date -d "+7 days" +%-j)   
fi

#
# retrieve information on school holidays from internet
#
year=$(date +%Y)
shdInfo=$(curl -s http://www.kalender-${year}.org/schulferien/nordrhein-westfalen-nrw/ | grep -A 1 '<div class="datum">' | awk 'BEGIN{RS="</div>";FS=">";} {print $2;}')

#echo $shdInfo

# record format:   beginn - end holidayname (29.06.15 - 11.08.15 Sommerferien ...)
#
# store information on holidays in array variables
#
i=1
counter=0
for item in $shdInfo
do
	#echo $item
	counter=$(( counter+1 ))
	if [ $counter -eq 1 ];
	then
		hdbeginn[$i]=$(echo $item | awk 'BEGIN{FS=".";} {print "20"$3$2$1;}')
	fi
	if [ $counter -eq 3 ]
	then
		hdend[$i]=$(echo $item | awk 'BEGIN{FS=".";} {print "20"$3$2$1;}')
	fi
	if [ $counter -eq 4 ]
	then
		hdname[$i]=$item
		hdinfo[$i]="${hdname[$i]} $(date -d ${hdbeginn[$i]} +%d.%b) - $(date -d ${hdend[$i]} +%d.%b)"
		
		ihdbeginn=$(date -d ${hdbeginn[$i]} +%-j)		# numeric start
		ihdend=$(date -d ${hdend[$i]} +%-j)
		ryear=$(date -d ${hdbeginn[$i]} +%Y)
		
		#echo $ihdbeginn $ihdend $ryear $year
		if [ $ihdbeginn -gt $ihdend ] && [ $ryear -eq $year ]
		then
			hdend[$i]=$year"1231"
		elif [ $ihdbeginn -gt $ihdend ] && [ $ryear -lt $year ]
		then
			hdbeginn[$i]=$year"0101"
		fi
		if [ $DEBUG ]; then echo "${hdinfo[$i]}"; fi
		i=$(( i+1 ))
		counter=0
	fi
done
#
# check if current day is a holiday
#
counter=1
while [ $counter -lt $i ]
do
	ihdbeginn=$(date -d ${hdbeginn[$counter]} +%-j)		# numeric start
	ihdend=$(date -d ${hdend[$counter]} +%-j)			# numeric end
	
	if [ $DEBUG ]; then echo $counter  $fcday $iday $ihdbeginn $ihdend;fi
	
	if ([ "$iday" -ge "$ihdbeginn" ] && [ "$iday" -le "$ihdend" ] )
	then
		schoolHoliday="true"
		schoolHolidayInfo=${hdinfo[$counter]}
	elif [ "$fcday"  -ge "$ihdbeginn" ] && [ "$fcday" -le "$ihdend" ]
	then
		schoolHolidayInfo=${hdinfo[$counter]}
	fi
	counter=$(( counter+1 ))
done

if [ $DEBUG ]; then echo $schoolHoliday  $schoolHolidayInfo;fi
#
# write to pimatic
#
pimatic_var_value="\"$schoolHoliday\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR1 "$pimatic_var_value"

pimatic_var_value="\"$schoolHolidayInfo\""
write_to_pimatic $PIMATIC_VAR2 "$pimatic_var_value"

exit 0

I changed the lsome lines so that it fit to BaWü

hdinfo.sh

shdInfo=$(curl -s http://www.kalender-${year}.org/schulferien/baden-wuerttemberg/

and phinfo.sh

public_holiday=$(curl -s http://www.ferienkalender.com/ferien_deutschland/Baden-Wuerttemberg/2015-ferien-baden-wuerttemberg.htm | grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{RS="</td></tr><tr";FS="><td align=left>";} {print $2,$3;}'| grep "$qdate" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="<b>";} {print $3,$2;}' | awk 'BEGIN{FS="</b></td ";} {print $2," - ",$1;}' )

this is my output in the terminal:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ./phinfo.sh 20151225
:true:Freitag, 25.12.2015  -   1. Weihnachtstag:
pimatic variable - publicHoliday
value - "true"
user:password - admin:admin
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/publicHoliday
pimatic variable - today
value - "Freitag, 25.12.2015  -   1. Weihnachtstag"
user:password - admin:admin
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/today
Aufgang 05:25 Uhr, Untergang 21:36 Uhr
pimatic variable - sunposition
value - "Aufgang 05:25 Uhr, Untergang 21:36 Uhr"
user:password - admin:admin
url - http://raspberrypi/api/variables/sunposition

but got this output? What is wrong?
picture

The output of the script seems fine for me. Maybe there is a problem in writing to pimatic. Edit the curl statement in the function write_to_pimatic by deleting the option --insecure and/or --silent. After that run the script phinfo.sh to check the output of the curl command which writes to the pimatic variables.
(you’re close to got it running!)

fyi: if someone has the same problem like me:

-bash: ./phinfo.sh: /bin/bash^M: Defekter Interpreter: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

this is the solution:
Do this for the 3 files (it changes the end of line character because it is different between dos and linux)

sed -i -e 's/\r$//' *.sh

cheers

@temp whats your pimatic username?

check the pimaticAPI.sh script:
PIMATIC_USER=admin

is this correct in your case? i had to change it

Yes user is okay @dk00000

I changed now in pimaticAPI.sh in write

 curl -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": '"${pimatic_var_value}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var >/dev/null 2>&1

and also in post to

curl -X POST --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"actionString":'"${pimatic_action}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action >/dev/null 2>&1

nthing changed

@temp Please delete also ‘>/dev/null 2>&1’ at the end of the curl statement!

What is now the output from the curl command?

Did you change priviledges of the admin role in config.json?

Run the curl command direct from the shell, to see if the REST API to pimatic is working: (command to write to variable ‘$today’)

curl -X PATCH --header “Content-Type:application/json” --data ‘{“type”: “value”, “valueOrExpression”: “Test API Test”}’ --user “admin:yourpasswd” http://ip_of_your_pimatic_server/api/variables/today

@MrSponti Thierse is my config and permissions

“permissions”: {
“pages”: “write”,
“rules”: “write”,
“variables”: “write”,
“messages”: “write”,
“events”: “write”,
“devices”: “write”,
“groups”: “write”,
“plugins”: “write”,
“updates”: “write”,
“database”: “write”,
“config”: “write”,
“controlDevices”: true,
“restart”: true,}

@MrSponti said:

curl -X PATCH --header “Content-Type:application/json” --data ‘{“type”: “value”, “valueOrExpression”: “Test API Test”}’ --user “admin:yourpasswd” http://ip_of_your_pimatic_server/api/variables/today

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ curl -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data'{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": "Test API Test"}' --user "admin:admin" http://raspberrypi/api/variables/today
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>405 Method Not Allowed</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Method Not Allowed</h1>
<p>The requested method PATCH is not allowed for the URL /api/variables/today.        </p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at raspberrypi Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Hi. If i execute the scripts via shell it works perfect. But if i use it via a pimatic rule i get an error at pimaticapi.sh at line 13: unexpected “(”

Why?

Cheers.

The problem is the port

I changed the pimaticAPI.sh

#!/bin/bash
# pimaticAPI.sh

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
export PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE="/home/pi/pimatic-app/config.json"
export PIMATIC_HOST=$(hostname)
export PIMATIC_USER=admin

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# write value trough pimatic variabale
#  
function write_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_var=$1
pimatic_var_value=$2

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')
pimatic_port=$(grep "\"port\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | awk '{print $2}')

# DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
    echo "pimatic variable - ${pimatic_var}"
    echo "value - ${pimatic_var_value}"
    echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
    echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/variables/$pimatic_var"
fi

curl --insecure -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": '"${pimatic_var_value}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST:$pimatic_port/api/variables/$pimatic_var >/dev/null 2>&1

}
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# post action request trough pimatic
#  
function post_action_to_pimatic() {

pimatic_action=$1

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 1 -w "\"role\": \"admin\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w "password" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}')
pimatic_port=$(grep "\"port\"" $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | awk '{print $2}')

# DEBUG
#
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]
then
    echo "pimatic action - ${pimatic_action}"
    echo "user:password - ${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}"
    echo "url - http://$PIMATIC_HOST/api/execute-action"
fi

curl --insecure -X POST --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"actionString":'"${pimatic_action}"'}' --user "${PIMATIC_USER}:${pimatic_pwd}" http://$PIMATIC_HOST:$pimatic_port/api/execute-action >/dev/null 2>&1

}

I wil change the script again to “grep” the port out of the config file, please be patient

DONE

@temp
this would be very nice!

question: why is the “holiday script” not a discrete plugin instead of three loose scripts??

cheers

@dk00000 you are right, this should be an plugin.
@temp are you interested into making this an plugin? I could help.

I would highly appreciate if someone could migrate the scripts into a more easily, centrally maintained plugin. Unfortunately I don’t have any knowledge of java script to support you.
Keep in mind that the information is sourced from html pages which might be changed by the providers in future. For global use it might be reasonable to use a local file containing the information on public and school holidays. -> if local file exist use local file, else read information from internet

@Oitzu said:

@dk00000 you are right, this should be an plugin.
@temp are you interested into making this an plugin? I could help.

Yes, I’m interested in it but my programming skills are really bad My last programming session was during my studies and that was long ago

Well don’t know how to, but an international option would be cool.
Maybe it’s possible with Google calendar (just my 2 cents)?

I know that @mwittig is working on this in his spare-time. Have a look here : http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/400/pimatic-google-calendar-plugin

I imported all holidays from ics files into Google calendar. So this also could be an option

Hello all,
I found a page for the international version. Give me one day to check the site and the skeleton. then I will come back with news